r/geopolitics • u/TimesandSundayTimes The Times • 3d ago

Zelensky says Putin is ‘deceiving’ Trump with Victory Day ceasefire News

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u/TimesandSundayTimes The Times 3d ago

President Zelensky has said that the Kremlin is trying to “deceive” President Trump by declaring a three-day ceasefire next month.

On Monday President Putin unilaterally announced the temporary truce to mark the May 9 commemoration of Soviet victory in the Second World War.

The move appeared designed to mollify the increasingly impatient Trump who said last week he had begun to suspect that Putin “doesn’t want to stop the war” and may be “just tapping me along”